Golf tee



F. B. HOLLI S Jan. 26 1925.

GOLF TEE Filed June E5,` 1925 Patented Jan. 26, 1926.

vUNITED :STAT-Es PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK BOWYER HOLLIS, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.-

GOLF TEE.

Application led June 6, 1925. Serial No. 35,485.

T0 all whom t may concern y Be. it known that I, FREDERICK BowYER HOLLIS, asubject of the King of Great Britain, residing in London, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Golf Tees, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to providei upon the tee, assumes or is given a'position directly in rear of the point of the ball which is struck by the club-when an accurate shot is made. The player, when addressing the ball, has this disc or spot, to which any suitable colour or marking or shape can be given, to concentrate his vision upon, and is thereby assisted not merely to keep his eye on lthe ball but as nearly as may be upon that spot of the ball which the club head should strike. It is, of course, impossible for the player to keep his Yeye on that definite point on the ball which is to be struck, since the position of the point is substantially at the end of the horizontal fore and aft. diameter, but the present invention provides a well defined spot directly i1i rear of the correct point of imp-act'and thereby assists the player to make an accurate shot.

One embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figs. l and 2 are respectively an elevation and plan View of the improved tee in the collapsed condition as carried by the player; Figs. 8 and 4 are respectively a rear elevation anda plan of the tee as placedV usually of paper of suiiicient stiffness, but` may be of any other suitable material, without top or bottom' andof such depth and size of aperture that when the ball B is placed upon it, the latter is at the appropriate heightv for striking. The height of the ball with respect to the ground mayl be .varied by varying either the lengthl of the side of the parallelepiped or its depth, and the tee can be made and issued in various standard dlmensions, according as a low,

medium or high tee is required by the player. i

Integral with or attached to thev rear wall of the teeis a strip C of paper, or other suitable thin and preferably slightly spring material, extending vertically upward from the centre of the wall and having at the free end a round or other shapeddisc C of suitable size which may be coloured or otherwise vmarked on its front face to assist concentration of vision upon it. It will be convenient to refer to the marked face of this disc as the eye-spot. When the ball is placed upon the tee, as shown in Fig. 5, the strip C is deiected rearwardly in the vertical fore and aft plane and thereby brings the eye-spot into an approximately horizontal position directly behind the rear central point of the ball. Should it be desired the disc C may be turned downwards by the fingers to give it a more horizontal position, as shown in Fig. 5, than it would assume merely by the flexure of the strip C upon placing the ball on the tee. It is not, however, necessary that the eye-spot should be in the horizontal plane through the center of the ball so long as it is clearly directly in rear of the ball in the fore and aft vertical plane and visible to the player.

Instead of the aperture of the box-shaped tee being square, as shown, it may be polygonal or circular or any other suitable shape, the shapeand material being preferably of such a character as to enable the tee readily to assume a compact collapsed form.

The box tee A and also the strip C are preferably green in colour, for reasons ob vious to golfers, while the eye-spot is colg oured or otherwise marked to make it stand out asl clearly as possible to the vision.

Having thusvdescribed the nature ofthe said invention and the best means I know of carrying the same into practical effect, I claim z-f- 1. A golf tee comprising a collapsible body portion and an eye-spot associated therewith and orrangedto be deflected by the placing of the ball onthe body portion of the tee into an appropriate position clearl visible to the player.

2. paper golf tee comprising a body portion in the form of a top-less parallelepiped and an eye-spot1forme`d on a strip extending vertically vupwards from the rear face of said body portion.

eye-spotreonnected therewith land extending above the top of thebody portion and 1aterally thereof.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

FREDERICK BOWYER HOLLIS. 

